An Unforeseen Motive — Cherie O'Boyle

It's the summer of 1932, an era rife with the challenges of keeping body and soul together even for companions Evelyn Winslow and Flora Fitzgerald. On summer break from teaching, the young sleuths accept a much-needed commission to investigate labor unrest roiling in the fruit orchards of the San Francisco East Bay. They've hardly started when a worker is brutally slain. Evelyn uncovers the means of death, but too many have the opportunity. And possible motives for committing the murder remain a confusing mystery, leaving Evelyn and Flora on their own and in no small danger as they try to work out the puzzle together. An Unforeseen Motive is the second in the Winslow & Fitzgerald Investigations series. Book Club discussion questions available on request.